Title: Barefoot in the Rain Author: Roxanne St. Claire Series: Barefoot Bay, #2 Published: October 2012, Forever Format: Paperback, Source: Personal copy They say you can never go home again . . . When “Life Coach to the Stars” Jocelyn Bloom is embroiled in scandal, the only place she can hide is the one place she wishes she could forget. She…
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The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news. A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead. I’m also going to link this up with Sheila’s It’s Monday post over at Book Journey. Fall is almost here and while we’ve had…
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#BookBlogWalkers is hosted by Felicia @ The Geeky Bloggers Book Blog I was doing really good this week until I woke up Thursday with a nasty head cold! And it came out of no where…I was in the city on Wednesday and felt totally fine. I walked around all afternoon – managing to get in over 20,000 steps, even!!! It was a great day, just wandering around. Then Thursday morning…
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Title: Winter of the World Author: Ken Follett Series: The Century Trilogy, #2 Published: September 2012, Dutton Adult Format: Hardcover, 940 pages Source: Personal copy Picking up where Fall of Giants, the first novel in the extraordinary Century Trilogy, left off, Winter of the World follows its five interrelated families—American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh—through a time of enormous social, political, and…
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Title: Fatal Voyage Author: Kathy Reichs Series: Temperance Brennan, #4 Narrator: Kate Harper Published: August 2001, Simon & Schuster Audio Length: 11 hours 47 minutes Source: Personal copy via Audible A plane crashes high in the mountains of North Carolina. But a severed foot is discovered a good distance from the crash site. Forensic anthropologist Dr Temperance Brennan is first on…
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The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news. A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead. I’m also going to link this up with Sheila’s It’s Monday post over at Book Journey. This past week was so busy at work…
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#BookBlogWalkers is hosted by Felicia @ The Geeky Bloggers Book Blog This past week was crazy busy at work. I work mainly from home, occasionally going into the office for meetings or trainings. This week, though, I had be in the office every day to cover the phones due to sick leave and vacation coverage, so it really messed up my regular schedule. I got in short walks each day, but…
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Title: The Other Girl Author: Pam Jenoff Published: September 2014, Harlequin MIRA Format: E-book, 21 pages Source: Netgalley One woman’s determination to protect a child from the dangers of war will force her to face those lurking closer to home… Life in rural Poland during WWII brings a new set of challenges to Maria, estranged from her own family and left alone with…
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Title: Fall of Giants Author: Ken Follett Series: Century Trilogy, #1 Published: September 2010, Dutton Adult Format: Hardcover, 985 pages Source: Personal copy Ken Follett’s magnificent new historical epic begins, as five interrelated families move through the momentous dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women’s suffrage. A thirteen-year-old Welsh boy enters a man’s world in…
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Title: Accidents of Marriage Author: Randy Susan Meyers Published: September 2014, Atria Books Format: Hardcover, 368 pages Source: Publisher via TLC Book Tours Accidents of Marriage examines the effect of a husband—and father’s—verbal rage and the aftermath of a serious accident caused by his unchecked anger. For Madeline Illica, her husband Ben is her greatest blessing and biggest curse. Brilliant and caring, he turns into a raging bull…
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The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news. A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead. I’m also going to link this up with Sheila’s It’s Monday post over at Book Journey. I spent this past weekend at my sister’s…
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Title: Sight Unseen Author: Iris Johansen & Roy Johansen Series: Kendra Michaels, #2 Narrator: Elisabeth Rodgers Published: July 2014, Brilliance Audio Length: 10 hours 15 minutes Source: Personal copy via Audible The #1 New York Times bestselling author and the Edgar Award winning author are back with a new a new novel featuring Kendra Michaels—hired gun for both the CIA and FBI A deadly…
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#BookBlogWalkers is hosted by Felicia @ The Geeky Bloggers Book Blog I’m slowly getting myself back on a regular schedule with my walking. I always feel so much better when I get my walking in each day. Plus, I’m determined that for this month, in addition to doing my regular fitness walks (which I list below) I get an overall 10,000 steps in a day 5 days a week and 5,000…
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Title: Conversion Author: Katherine Howe Narrator: Khristine Hvam Published: July 2014, Penguin Audio Length: 13 hours 30 minutes Source: Personal copy via Audible From the New York Times bestselling author of The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane comes a chilling mystery—Prep meets The Crucible. It’s senior year at St. Joan’s Academy, and school is a pressure cooker. College applications, the battle for valedictorian, deciphering boys’ texts:…
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Publication Date: March 24, 2015 Touchstone Publishing Formats: eBook, Hardcover Pages: 390 Genre: Historical Mystery Series: Joanna Stafford, Book Three In THE CROWN, Sister Joanna Stafford searched for a Dark Ages relic that could save her priory from Cromwell’s advancing army of destruction. In THE CHALICE, Joanna was drawn into an international conspiracy against Henry VIII himself as she struggled to learn the truth behind a prophecy of his destruction.…
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How is it September already? I feel like the summer was just starting the other day and yet fall will be here before we know it…I do have to say, I love the fall – the crisp, cool days, the changing leaves – I just hope we have a fall season before we move into winter! There are a ton of books coming out this fall and I’m hoping my…
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The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news. A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead. I’ve decided to try a new weekly meme – a place where I can do both a weekly wrap up and share what…
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#BookBlogWalkers is being hosted by Jen @ That’s What I’m Talking About for the month of August Last weekend we went to the beach and had a great time. I even convinced my hubby to take a walk with me Sunday morning – it was so nice!!! The rest of the week consisted of me taking lots of short walks with a sick dog…luckily she’s finally feeling better! Here’s…
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Today, I am pleased to welcome Lori Foster to Always With a Book. Her latest book, No Limits, is the first book in her Ultimate series. It is now available. You can read my review of the book here. Please enjoy this Q&A and be sure to enter the giveaway for a chance to win a copy of No Limits below! Can you tell us a little bit about your…
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Title: No Limits Author: Lori Foster Series: Ultimate, #1 Published: August 2014, Harlequin HQN Format: ARC Paperback, 432 pages Source: Publisher A surprise inheritance reunites a mixed martial arts fighter with the woman he’s never forgotten in the first in a smoldering new series from New York Times bestselling author Lori Foster… Cannon Colter is quintessential hero material: chiseled jawline, shredded body—the…
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Title: Hard Knocks Author: Lori Foster Series: Ultimate, #0.5 Published: August 2014, Harlequin HQN Format: E-book, 60 pages Source: Personal copy In the stunning prequel novella to her new mixed martial arts series, New York Times bestselling author Lori Foster brings together an elite fighter and the woman he’s determined to win. Power. Brute strength. Unforgettable moves. It’s no wonder Harper…
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Title: Top Secret Twenty-One Author: Janet Evanovich Series: Stephanie Plum, #21 Narrator: Lorelei King Published: June 2014, Random House Audio Length: 6 hours 16 minutes Source: Personal copy via Audible Catch a professional assassin: top priority. Find a failure-to-appear and collect big bucks: top score. How she’ll pull it all off: top secret. Trenton, New Jersey’s favorite used-car dealer, Jimmy Poletti, was…
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Title: Three Story House Author: Courtney Miller Santo Published: August 2014, William Morrow & Co Format: ARC Paperback, 416 pages Source: Publisher via TLC Book Tours Renovating an historic Memphis house together, three cousins discover that their spectacular failures in love, career, and family provide the foundation for their future happiness in this warm and poignant novel from the author of The Roots of…
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The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news. A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead. I’ve decided to try a new weekly meme – a place where I can do both a weekly wrap up and share what…
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#BookBlogWalkers is being hosted by Jen @ That’s What I’m Talking About for the month of August This week was a bit of an off week for me. I ended up having a headache that lasted 5 days…nothing seemed to make it go away so exercising was the last thing on my mind. I did manage to get in some easy walks, but nothing strenuous. Luckily, the headache has subsided, and…
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Title: After I’m Gone Author: Laura Lippman Published: August 2014 (Reprint); William Morrow Paperbacks Format: Paperback, 384 pages Source: Publisher via TLC Book Tours Dead is dead. Missing is gone. When Felix Brewer meets nineteen-year-old Bernadette “Bambi” Gottschalk at a Valentine’s Day dance in 1959, he charms her with wild promises, some of which he actually keeps. Thanks to his lucrative—if not all legal—businesses,…
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Author Alison Atlee’s The Typewriter Girl is now an audiobook, narrated by Audie winner Rosalyn Landor, and in celebration she’ll be touring the blogosphere from August 4-29 with Historical Fiction Virtual Book Tours! Enter to win a copy at the end of this post! I read this book last year when it first came out in print edition and you can read my review here. Audible Audio Book Edition Release…
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Title: The Good Girl Author: Mary Kubica Published: July 2014, Harlequin MIRA Format: ARC Paperback, 352 pages Source: Publisher “I’ve been following her for the past few days. I know where she buys her groceries, where she has her dry cleaning done, where she works. I don’t know the color of her eyes or what they look like when she’s scared. But I will.”…
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The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news. A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead. I’ve decided to try a new weekly meme – a place where I can do both a weekly wrap up and share what…
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#BookBlogWalkers is being hosted by Jen @ That’s What I’m Talking About for the month of August Another week has come and gone! It wasn’t quite as busy as last week and I was able to get in my walks each day. I also decided to do some inside walking while catching up on my DVR instead of just sitting on the couch – might as well be productive while watching…
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Title: The Collector Author: Nora Roberts Narrator: Julia Whelan Published: April 2014, Brilliance Audio Length: 15 hours 44 minutes Source: Personal copy via Audible From #1 New York Times-bestselling author Nora Roberts comes a novel of a woman who needs nothing, a man who sees everything, and the web of deceit, greed, and danger that brings them together—and could tear them apart . . . When…
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Title: Season of the Dragonflies Author: Sarah Creech Published: August 2014, William Morrow Format: ARC Paperback, 224 pages Source: Publisher via TLC Book Tours As beguiling as the novels of Alice Hoffman, Adriana Trigiani, Aimee Bender, and Sarah Addison Allen, Season of the Dragonflies is a story of flowers, sisters, practical magic, old secrets, and new love, set in the Blue Ridge Mountains For…
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Title: Butternut Summer Author: Mary McNear Series: The Butternut Lake Trilogy, #2 Published: August 2014, William Morrow Paperbacks Format: ARC Paperback, 400 pages Source: Publisher Return to the golden beauty of Minnesota’s Butternut Lake in this emotional story that vividly captures the joy and pain of first love, as a mother and daughter each come to terms with the desires of her heart. Summer…
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The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news. A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead. I’ve decided to try a new weekly meme – a place where I can do both a weekly wrap up and share what…
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Title: The Perfect Score Author: Beth Albright Published: May 2014, Tule Publishing Group Format: E-book, 138 pages Source: Personal copy Ginny Bloom Hunnicutt is crawling back home to Cottonwood Cove Alabama, her promising CNN news-reporting career in shambles when an on-air flub cost her the job and cost CNN a lawsuit. Putting ego aside, she takes a position at the Chatterbox, the local weekly…
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#BookBlogWalkers is being hosted by Jen @ That’s What I’m Talking About for the month of August This week work was super busy and my schedule was jammed packed. I ended up working nights this week, which totally throws my schedule off track. I did manage to get some walks in each morning, but they were quick ones – mainly just to get the dogs out for a bit. Next week,…
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Title: Wedding Night Author: Sophie Kinsella Narrator: Jayne Entwistle, Fiona Hardingham, Mark Bramhall Published: April 2013, Random House Audio Length: 13 hours Source: Library Lottie just knows that her boyfriend is going to propose during lunch at one of London’s fanciest restaurants. But when his big question involves a trip abroad, not a trip down the aisle, she’s completely crushed. So when Ben, an old…
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Title: Big Little Lies Author: Liane Moriarty Published: July 2014, Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam Format: ARC Paperback, 480 pages Source: Publisher A murder . . . a tragic accident . . . or just parents behaving badly? What’s indisputable is that someone is dead. But who did what? Big Little Lies follows three women, each at a crossroads: Madeline is a force to be reckoned…
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The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news. A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead. I’ve decided to try a new weekly meme – a place where I can do both a weekly wrap up and share what…
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Hello August! Summer is flying by and work has crazy busy which means I’m not getting in as much reading time as I would like. I’m hoping that I can sneak in some more reading time here and there during these upcoming weeks as summer winds down before the fall is upon us as – there as so many good books that have just come out and I want to…
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#BookBlogWalkers is being hosted by Jen @ That’s What I’m Talking About for the month of August I did it!!! I walked my second 1/2 marathon and had a great time doing it! Walking a half marathon in NYC at night with my mom, my sister and about 3,000 other women and some men in our bras was quite an experience…and I cannot wait to do it again. It’s always been…
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Title: Gone Author: James Patterson Series: Michael Bennett, #6 Published: September 2013, Little, Brown & Company Format: Hardcover, 416 pages Source: Personal copy A crime lord has declared war on America. Only Detective Michael Bennett knows why. Manuel Perrine doesn’t fear anyone or anything. A charismatic and ruthless leader, Perrine slaughters rivals as effortlessly as he wears his trademark white linen suit.…
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Title: The Sweet Spot Author: Stephanie Evanovich Published: July 2014, William Morrow Format: ARC Paperback, 272 pages Source: Publisher via TLC Book Tours The amazing Stephanie Evanovich returns with The Sweet Spot, the sizzling story of everyone’s favorite couple from her New York Times bestseller Big Girl Panties: hunky professional baseball player Chase Walker and his sassy wife Amanda When pro baseball player Chase…
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The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news. A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead. I’ve decided to try a new weekly meme – a place where I can do both a weekly wrap up and share what…
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Title: Waiting On You Author: Kristan Higgins Series: Blue Heron, #3 Narrator: Amy Rubinate Published: March 2014, Blackstone Audio Length: 12 hours, 21 minutes Source: Personal copy via Audible Does being nobody’s fool mean that you’re nobody’s love? Colleen O’Rourke is in love with love… just not when it comes to herself. Most nights, she can be found behind the bar at the…
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#BookBlogWalkers is hosted by Felicia @ The Geeky Bloggers Book Blog Tomorrow is the big day, or rather, big night!!! I will be walking the Walk the Walk America’s MoonWalkNYC benefiting Breast Cancer. I’m doing the 1/2 marathon as this is my first time participating in the event, but there is an option to do a full marathon (maybe next year I’ll do that!). I’m doing the walk with my mom…
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Please join me in welcoming Barbara Kyle, author of The Queen’s Exile to Always With a Book! If you missed my review, you can read it here. Today Barbara guest blogs about one special email from a reader. Enjoy and be sure to enter the giveaway below! THE ACORN AND THE PINE CONE by Barbara Kyle I welcome every letter and email I get from readers, but there’s one…
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Title: Little Mercies Author: Heather Gudenkauf Published: June 2014, Harlequin MIRA Format: ARC Paperback, 320 pages Source: Publisher In her latest ripped-from-the-headlines tour de force, New York Times bestselling author Heather Gudenkauf shows how one small mistake can have life-altering consequences… Veteran social worker Ellen Moore has seen the worst side of humanity; the vilest acts one person can commit against another. She is…
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Title: The Queen’s Exiles Author: Barbara Kyle Series: Thornleigh, #6 Published: May 2014, Kensington Format: ARC Paperback, 352 pages Source: Publisher via Historical Fiction Virtual Book Tours 1572. Europe is in turmoil. In the Netherlands the streets are red with the blood of those who dare to oppose the brutal Spanish occupation. A vengeful faction of exiled English Catholics is plotting to…
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The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news. A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead. I’ve decided to try a new weekly meme – a place where I can do both a weekly wrap up and…
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